What the landscape can tell: An integrative stratigraphic prospection approach to localize a Black Death mass grave in Erfurt/Central Germany
Fig 2
Graphical representations of the immediate study site. Panel A – Terrain levelling for the construction of the airfield in 1926 with the hill “Roter Berg” in the background (courtesy of Thuringian State Department for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology TLDA; photo credits: Wilhelm Lorenz 1926). Panel B – Map of the excavation findings 1926/27 (Bolle, 1937). For location, the map includes a scale (lower right = “Maßstab”) and the directional distances to the nearest roads.
Abbreviations: FM = cemetery wall, M2 = second wall, Mgr. = mass grave, Egr. = individual graves (schematic), B = debris of the former church (schematic). Additional terms: “Scherben” = pottery sherds found at the northern edge of the excavation, “alter Fußweg” = former footpath, “180-m-Höhenlinie” = 180 m contour line, “190m bis Stott. Straße” = distance to the road ‘Stotternheimer Straße’. “Am Schwengelborn” refers to a toponym translating to ‘well sweep’. Panel C – Digital elevation model of the study area that displays all coring positions and the trace of all ERT-profiles included in the study (P2-P4, P6, P7, P11, P12). Also indicated in orange is the tentative position of notable features from the excavation in 1926/27 according to our preferential georeferenced version of the sketch by Bolle (1937), cf. Supplementary Section 2 in Supplementary Information in S1 File. Current land use marked by white text boxes. DEM provided by the Thuringian State Office for Land Management and Geoinformation (© GDI-Th, License: dl-de/by-2-0, https://geoportal.thueringen.de/gdi-th/download-offene-geodaten).